Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

ALSO CALLED:
SOX Compliance,
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404,
Section 404,
Sarbanes Oxley,
Sarbanes-OxleyDEFINITION: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often shortened to SOX) is legislation enacted in response to the high-profile Enron and WorldCom financial scandals to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in the enterprise. The act is administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which sets deadlines for compliance and publishes rules on requirements.
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SARBANES-OXLEY COMPLIANCE DEFINITION (continued): Sarbanes-Oxley is not a set of business practices and does not specify how a business should store records; rather, it defines which records are to be stored and for how long. The legislation not only affects the financial side of corporations, it also affects the IT departments whose job it is to store a corporation's electronic records. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act states that all business records, including electronic records and electronic messages, must be saved for "not less than five years." The consequences for non-compliance are fines, imprisonment, or both. IT departments are increasingly Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance definition sponsored by SearchCIO.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary

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